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Venice, Italy – a c1892 photo titled “Rio Albrizzi” by Paolo Salviati<\/p><\/div>\n

Toronto<\/strong>. Image collectors can categorize pictures like that shown at left as ‘travel’, ‘water’, ‘canal’, ‘boats’ or even other names. The photograph was shot c1892 by Italian Paolo Salviati in Venice and titled “Rio Albrizzi”.<\/p>\n

Editor Lansdale used this shot as his cover photograph for issue 27-4. Bob writes, “In the 1890s affluent Canadians\u00a0joined other tourists to visit Europe for\u00a0the Grand Tour. They brought back collections of photographs prepared by photographic entrepreneurs who specialized\u00a0in providing scenics, architectural attractions and copies of cultural artwork.<\/p>\n

“Thomas Ritchie of Ottawa revisits\u00a0such a tour with his article, beginning on\u00a0page 4, to discover the photographers\u00a0who provided those pictures.<\/p>\n

“Here we have a scene of the canals\u00a0that threaded their way through Venice.”<\/p>\n

Our 2026 Events are well underway. Collectors can discover many items and photos for their collection amongst the items at the next event – the Spring Fair<\/a>, set for May 24th this year, a week after Victoria Day here in Toronto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Toronto. Image collectors can categorize pictures like that shown at left as ‘travel’, ‘water’, ‘canal’, ‘boats’ or even other names. The photograph was shot c1892 by Italian Paolo Salviati in Venice and titled “Rio Albrizzi”. Editor Lansdale used this shot … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1944],"tags":[500,34,286,400,279,348],"class_list":["post-34143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-accessories","tag-cameras","tag-darkroom","tag-fair","tag-lenses","tag-studio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34143"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34147,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34143\/revisions\/34147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}